The Yangtze finless porpoise(YFP)is an endemic freshwater cetacean species that exclusively inhabits the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River basin.Since the late 1970s,the YFP has experienced a drastic popul...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No.2022 YFF1301603);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (No.2021A1515011467)in China;the Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai),China (Nos.311020003 and 311021004);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.32201290);the 71st batch of China Postdoctoral Science Funding (No.2022M713560)。
A comprehensive risk assessment to evaluate the vulnerability of the nearshore cetaceans to increasing marine traffic is lacking.In this study,the risk to Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins(Sousa chinensis)in the main hab...
supported by the National Key Program of Research and Development,Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2022YFF1301600);National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070409,32270453 to S.X.X.);Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions to G.Y.and S.X.X.;Qing Lan Project of Jiangsu Province to S.X.X.
DEAR EDITOR,Despite the generally increased cancer risk in large,long-lived organisms,cetaceans,among the largest and longest-living mammals,appear to possess a counteracting mechanism.Nevertheless,the genetic basis u...
supported by the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2022YFF1301601),and the PI Project of Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Guangzhou)(GML2020GD0804 and GML2022GD0804).
The rough-toothed dolphin(Steno bredanensis)is characterized by having teeth covered infinely wrinkled vertical ridges,which is a general manifestation of amelogenesis imperfecta.The rough surfaces are hypothesized to ...
Cetaceans are aquatic mammals living in an environment that is more suited for hearing than vision.As such,their sensory systems largely utilize acoustic cues for navigation,communication,foraging,and predator avoidan...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(31900310 to R.T.);Key Project of the NSFC(32030011 and 31630071 to G.Y.);NSFC(31950410545 to I.S.);Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions;the Jiangsu Specially-Appointed Professors Program(to I.S.)。
Many mammals risk damage from oxidative stress stemming from frequent dives(i.e., cycles of ischemia/reperfusion and hypoxia/reoxygenation),high altitude and subterranean environments, or powered flight. Purine metabo...
The Gulf of Guinea region enjoined with the unique characteristics of the Guinea surface and underwater currents driving the upwelling season, besets the ecological importance of the area amidst growing offshore devel...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant number 2016YFC0300803);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41406182,41306169 and 41422604);the incubating program of Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering,Chinese Academy of Sciences(Y960041001);the biodiversity investigation,observation and assessment program(2019-2023)of Ministry of Ecology and Environment of China;Ocean Park Conservation Foundation Hong Kong(AW02-1920).
A pioneering boat-based survey was conducted in 2019,to gather baseline information regarding the presence,composition,relative abundance,and spatial distribution of deep-diving and off-shore cetaceans in the northern...
The data analysis and paper writing were financially supported by the“One Belt and One Road”Science and Technology Cooperation Special Program of the International Partnership Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant number 183446KYSB20200016);the Indian Ocean Ninety-East Ridge Ecosystem and Marine Environment Monitoring and Protection,Supported by the China Ocean Mineral Resources R&D Association(no.DY135-E2-4)。
Scientific information is vital to the conservation of cetaceans and the management of whale-watching activities.The southern coastal waters of Sri Lanka are near a narrow continental shelf and biologically abundant i...